– CCIAL –
An Interpersonal Auxiliary Language

CCIAL Phonology and Orthography

The tables show the relevent phonetic symbols (in IPA) with the corresponding orthographic symbols, which is ASCII only. The 24 letters used are:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p r s t u v w y z —
q x are used only for proper nouns and have no prescribed phonetic values. Upper case letters aren't used except in proper nouns with non-standard pronunciation (usually initially).

Consonants

There are 23 consonant phones occurring as 19 consonant phonemes (not counting sc).

Consonant POA & MOA

		Labial				Coronal				Dorsal				Guttural
Stops	Voiceless	p	p			t	t					k	k
	Voiced	b	b			d	d					g	g
Nasals	(Voiced)	m	m			n	n *			ɲ	n *	ŋ	n *
Affricates	Voiceless							t͡ʃ	c *
	Voiced							d͡ʒ	j *
Fricatives	Voiceless			f	f	s	s	ʃ	c *					h	h
	Voiced			v	v	z	z	ʒ	j *
Rhotics						ɾ r	r
Approximants						l	l			j	y	w	w

• Consonant letters with multiple allophones are starred (*):
  • The letter <n> is velar before a velar stop or <w>, palatal before <y> and coronal otherwise.
  • The letter <j> is a fricative in coda position and an affricate in onset position.
  • The letter <c> is a fricative in coda position and an affricate in onset position, except after <s>
• The geminates [t:͡ʃ] and [ʃ:] are written <cc> and <sc>, respectively.
• The geminate [r:] is written <rr> and is phonemic only between vowels.

Vowels

There are 5 vowel phonemes.

Vowel Placement

	Front		Central		Back
High	i	i y			u	u w
Mid	e ~ ɛ	e			o ~ ɔ	o
Low			a ~ ɑ	a

• The diphthongs are <au>, <ai>, <oi>, <eu>, <ei>, and <ou>, of which only the first is common.
• In addition to their use as consonant letters, <y> and <w> appear instead of <i> and <u> in unstressed penults.
• The sequences <yi> and <wu> may be contracted to [i] and [u], respectively.

Note: <ay> and <ey> appear in the vocabulary instead of <ai> and <ei>; this should be fixed. However, <y> and <w> make more sense than <i> and <u> in diphthongs.

Epenthesis

In pronunciation, but never in writing, an epenthetic vowel may occur before or after a consonant to make pronunciation easier.

Syllable Structure

The nucleus of a CCIAL syllable is usually a simple vowel, sometimes a diphthong. The coda, if it occurs, is a single consonant. The onset, if it occurs, is a single consonant or a cluster; a leftover <s> may occur initially before certain consonants and clusters.

Stress

CCIAL words of 2 or more syllables stress the syllable containing the next-to-last vowel letter, with <y> and <w> not counting as vowel letters in this context.

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current date: 2014.Dec.20 Sat
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